>I am playing with a driver for the Broadcom 5700/5701. > >It recognizes the 5700 in my 3Com cards OK, but seems to screw up the >TCP checksum. > >Switching off hardware checksum capability fixes it. > >Does anyone know the details of which stepping this stuff worked on?
I haven't nailed down the problem that I've seen with them to a specific chipset, but I can confirm that they incorrectly calculate the checksum on input packets in some cases. It seems to be related to both packet size and certain TCP options (or lack of them). I've only seen the problem occur with very small (0-4 byte payload) packets. In any case, after discussing this problem with Bill Paul, I disabled input checksum in the -current driver and intend to merge that to -stable in a few days. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
